Afilmthat follows a flourishingyear in the life of Gilad Atzmon,one of modern music’s greatestsaxophonists.In additionto performing withsomeofmusic’sgreatestacts,suchasPinkFloydandSirPaulMcCartney,AtzmonisalsooneofEurope’smostcontroversialwritersandpublicspeakersinoppositiontoIsrael.

Sincethenhehasproducedsomeofthemodernera’sgreatestJazzalbums,andcollaboratedwithIanDury,PaulMcCartneyandSineadO’Connor.In music he is a ‘feisty improviser’as one critic put it, comparing him to the likes of Charlie Parker. In his politicalandphilosophicalideas,heisbluntandoutspoken.HisideasonIsraeland“Jewishness”haveupsetmanypeople,someofwhomhavegonetotheextremeoflabelinghimaholocaustdenierandananti-Semite–chargesthatGiladstronglyrejects.InGilad’slife,musicandpoliticsareinseparable.